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  2. List of books bound in human skin - Wikipedia

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    Other anthropodermic books that claim racial motivations have been found inauthentic. Two printings of Holbein's Dance of Death woodcuts, from 1816 and 1898 respectively, are confirmed to be bound in human skin. Reports predating peptide mass fingerprinting state that there are six anthropodermic copies.

  3. Bookbinding - Wikipedia

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    Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated processes. Firstly, one binds the sheets of papers along an edge with a thick needle and strong thread. One can also use loose-leaf rings, binding posts, twin ...

  4. Library binding - Wikipedia

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    Library binding is a way to increase the life of books and periodicals used in libraries. This is done by sewing the pages in place and by reinforcing the spine for each volume. The goal of library binding is long-term preservation. However, library bound books also benefit library patrons by ensuring that the volume in hand is complete, opened ...

  5. Tipped-in page - Wikipedia

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    Description. A tipped-in page or, if it is an illustration, tipped-in plate, is a page that is printed separately from the main text of the book, but attached to the book. [1] A tipped-in page may be glued onto a regular page, or even bound along with the other pages. It is often printed on a different kind of paper, using a different printing ...

  6. Advance copy - Wikipedia

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    Advance copy. An advance reading copy, advance review copy, advance reader's edition, advance copy, or a reader's edition ( ARC or ARE) is a free copy of a new book given by a publisher to booksellers, librarians, journalists, celebrities, or others, or as a contest or school prize, [ 1] before the book is printed for mass distribution.

  7. Wasōbon - Wikipedia

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    Wasōbon. Wasōbon ( Japanese: 和装本, or wahon ( 和本) [ 1]) is a traditional book style in Japan that dates from the late eighth century AD with the printing of "Hyakumantō Darani" during the reign of Empress Shōtoku (764–770 AD). [ 2] Most of the books were hand-copied until the Edo period (1603–1867), when woodblock printing ...

  8. Traditional Chinese bookbinding - Wikipedia

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    Records of Wenlan Pavilion, an example of a stitched bound book, Qing dynasty. Yin shan zheng yao, 1330, Ming dynasty. Traditional Chinese bookbinding, also called stitched binding ( Chinese: 線裝 xian zhuang ), is the method of bookbinding that the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and Vietnamese used before adopting the modern codex form. [ 1]

  9. Section (bookbinding) - Wikipedia

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    In bookbinding, a section, gathering, or signature is a group of sheets folded in half, to be worked into the binding as a unit. [1] Twelve gatherings can be seen in this spine-side view of a book being bound. The section is the basic building block of codex bindings. In Western bookbinding, sections are sewn through their folds, with the ...

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